Jack Higgins

about the author

Jack Higgins was born on 27th July 1929 in Newcastle on Tyne, is the principal pseudonym of UK novelist Harry Patterson. He moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland with his mother after his parents marriage foundered, and was raised there amid religious and political violence. He served two years in the British army as a non commissioned officer, on the East German border during the 1950’s. After leaving the army he studied sociology and Political science at London school of Economics. After completing his degree he worked for a time as a teacher and began writing novels in 1959. He is the author of more than sixty novels. He started to write under the name of Jack Higgins in the late 1960’s. As Higgins, most have been thrillers of various types and, since his breakthrough novel ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ in 1975, nearly all have been best-sellers. ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. He has also written under the names of Hugh Marlowe, and James Graham. He currently lives in Jersey, in the Channel Islands

Book List

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May 1944. The eve of the Allied invasion of Europe. When American OSS agent Craig Osbourne is taken aboard a German E-boat off the coast of Brittany, he thinks that his war and possibly his life are over. But the Lili Marlene is actually operated by ...

The past comes back to haunt Sean Dillon and his colleagues, as the New York Times-bestselling master of suspense returns with a knife-edge story of terrorism, revenge, and a very old nemesis.
In the past few years, the killing and capture of man...

The master of suspense returns with a cutting-edge tale that pits his heroes Sean Dillon and Sara Gideon against the nuclear ambitions of Iran.
An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can...

A devil is indeed waiting . . .
The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has cro...

A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Tal...

One man’s race to recover a hidden treasure becomes a struggle for survival against a violent criminal underworld
Hugh Marlowe spent five years in prison thinking only of the fortune he’d stashed away before being thrown behind bars. Unfortuna...

At the height of the Cold War, a renegade submarine threatens to ignite Europe in all-out war
The French submarine L’Alouette prowls deep beneath the surface of the North Atlantic, its crewmembers eager to spill blood in the service of their fre...

On Long Island, a trusted operative for the president nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the prime minister, approaches his car on a side street, when ...

Outspoken Russian writer Alexander Kurbsky wanted to "disappear" into the West. To avoid the wrath of the ruling elite, he makes elaborate plans with covert experts Charles Ferguson and Sean Dillon for his escape. It's a real coup for the West-except...

Intrigue in the halls of power, blood in the streets -- the master of suspense returns with a novel of dark passion and darker deeds.
Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs...

In the New York limes bestseller Without Mercy, Sean Dillon and his allies took vengeance on their deadliest enemies. Now, Dillon is pulled into a mission of mercy -- though he will be shown none...
For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it begins ...

In Jack Higgins's acclaimed bestseller Dark Justice, Sean Dillon and his allies beat back a terrible enemy, but at an equally terrible cost. One of them was shot, another run down in the street. Both were expected to survive--only one does...
As D...

Now, the heroic covert intelligence team of Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon must fight a very different kind of war--with a very different set of rules.
In Manhattan, the President is planning to have dinner with an old friend. In a darkened buildin...

Now an enemy has emerged with a dark secret from America's past--and a score to settle with agent Dillon.
In the waning days of World War II, Hitler entrusted his "holy" diary--a document detailing clandestine communications between Nazi Germany a...

Journalist Katherine Johnson made the mistake of getting too close to the secrets of international crime boss Jack Fox - but Fox made the mistake of killing her. Katherine's ex-husband is Blake Johnson, head of the clandestine White House department ...

After her brothers are killed one by one, oil heiress Kate Rashid--now the richest woman in the world--swears vengeance on all who have harmed her family. Never mind that they tried to assassinate the President of the United States, that villainy ran...

For hundreds of years, the Rashid has flourished. Now, endowed with a mix of sturdy British and fiery Arab bloodlines, they have become a remarkable family of warriors--equally at home in the streets of London or under the desert sun. And now they ha...

Published more than 30 years ago under a pseudonym, this novel is available for the first time in America. A Confederate colonel escapes to Ireland after the Civil War, only to get caught up in a conflict over there. Taking the guise of a legendary o...

New York: Late at night, the rain pouring down, a well-dressed woman in her sixties stands in a doorway, a gun in her purse, waiting for a senator to come home. Washington, D.C.: The phone rings on the desk of Blake Johnson, head of the White House d...

Oliver Grant, once a decorated soldier, is now a case-hardened mercenary who sells his services to the highest bidder. He would seem to be the perfect choice to rescue the stepson of a millionaire Mafia Boss from a Libyan prison fortress....

In the early days of World War II, nations were forced to choose sides in the epic battle that would change history forever. But for two brothers, fate had already made the choice. Separated as boys, Max and Harry Kelso have grown up to become ace fi...

In 1969, Jake Cazalet saved the life of a Frenchwoman in Vietnam, and a brief, passionate affair ensued. Years later in Paris, he was introduced to another beautiful young woman - his daughter. For many reasons, their relationship remained a secret. ...

Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorists for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillion's strengths and weaknesses...and bril...

A fortune in stolen British gold lies shipwrecked at the bottom of the Irish Sea. And history's deadliest treasure hunt is on.
Irish militant Michael Ryan wants to finance war in his homeland-and a sinister pact with the New York Mafia will make h...

There is only one weapon that could throw the British Task Force off the Falkland Islands: the Exocet. But Galtieri is running low on his nearly invincible weapon and British Intelligence also have a couple of secret weapons at their disposal, one of...

They call themselves "January 30," after the date of a British massacre in Belfast. They are allied with no one, killing American diplomats and KGB agents, Arabs and Israelis, IRA gunmen and Loyalist soldiers. But they are definitely the enemies of p...

The lost Temple of Sheba is not just a biblical legend.
A German archaeologist has found it. The Nazis have claimed it.
And one American explorer has stumbled upon their secret--a plot that could change the course of World War IL..
This elec...

An explosive and timely thriller about the uncertain future of Hong Kong, China, and the world....
1944. Mao Tse-tung signs a secret document that could delay the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong for an additional one hundred years. But all copies of...

1945. The day before Hitler commits suicide, he arranges for Nazi leader Martin Bormann to flee to South America in a German U-boat.
1992. Terrorist Sean Dillon is saved from a Yugoslavian firing squad--if he agrees to help the British government ...

Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorists for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillion's strengths and weaknesses...and bril...

In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, Dillinger was like a ghost some claimed to spot him in New York, others in London, New Orleans, or California. Though the FBI would eventually find and kill Dillinger in Chicago, specul...

The girl claimed she was being followed, and he fell asleep drunk after escorting her home. But when American Matt Brady awakes, the place is crawling with London police, and the girl is dead. He is sent to prison for murder, but Matt knows he has to...

Jack Nelson came out of ‘Nam with two things: phenomenal flying skills and a serious problems taking orders from anyone. Now, he makes a decent living … almost entirely legal … peddling his talents to the highest bidder. But when he rescues a y...

A life of violence haunts 3 desperate men, whose attempts to escape their pasts only confirm their chosen way of life. Emmet Keogh is a trained assassin who can no longer remember how many people he has killed. Van Horne, a past priest, bank robber a...

1940. Hitler s terrifying war machine will soon roll through England, and in its wake Hitler plans to enthrone puppet monarchs under Nazi control. For these roles he demands none other than the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Berlin. Brilliant SS...

As an increasingly isolated and insane Hitler pursues his hopeless war, betrayal and treachery reach the highest level of the Third Reich.
German intelligence knows that paratroop officer Colonel Steiner survived "Operation Eagle," the bungled, to...

The abrasively sentimental (and apparently autobiographical) narrative concerns Oliver Shaw, an eager young soldier just out of the British army in 1949 and ready for action of a different kind. " . . . and so," begins the novel, "I decided to devote...

Oliver Grant, once a decorated soldier, is now a case-hardened mercenary who sells his services to the highest bidder. He would seem to be the perfect choice to rescue the stepson of a millionaire Mafia Boss from a Libyan prison fortress....

In Paris, a Cambridge University student is murdered. When his body arrives in England it will be stuffed with pure heroin .... On a training field used by Britain's elite Special Air Service, a young sergeant hones his killing skills to a savage pit...

On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Channel. Wounded and adrift for days, he washes ashore on the German-occupied island of Jersey. The news spreads panic through the Allied high command: K...

Locals call it the Rio das Mortes the treacherous Brazilian river where the Huna tribe is known to kill all who trespass. Despite the river s deadly reputation, pilot Neil Mallory agrees to fly supplies to outposts there in hopes of making enough mon...

THE ULTIMATE ACT OF SUBMISSION... The first time Chavasse saw Anna Hartmann, she was gyrating under the spotlight on a strip club's stage, offering every man in the audience something to dream about. The next time he saw her, she was at home in her ...

The Russians trained him and planted him deep in the hottest spot in the free world -- Northern Ireland. He had the perfect cover and the perfect plan -- to kill the most beloved man on earth.
Too late the Russians changed their minds. He was out of...

Surviving a helicopter crash, Ellis Jackson is taken prisoner in Vietnam and placed in a special camp designed for brainwashing. His beautiful captor, Madame Ny, seduces him into confusion, but fellow prisoner Brigadier General James Maxwell St. Clai...

The hero of The Eagle Has Landed, Liam Devlin, has been kidnapped by British Intelligence and forced back into the terror game to hunt down a cold-blooded KGB assassin who has stolen NATO secret weapons. And the chase is on to catch a killer--in Jack...

1943. A daring gamble to win the war on the Italian front. It meant bringing "Lucky" Luciano, king of the American underworld, face-to-face with his Italian counterpart. The American invasion of Sicily depended on the out-come-on the clash of two Maf...

When Captain Lomax returns to the Greek island of Kyros after World War II, he not only recalls the daring mission he had undertaken, but also the shocking betrayal and subsequent massacre which is as yet unexplained....

In Europe's capitals, the ultimate assassin shoots to kill. In those very cities, on the nights of the killings, the brilliant concern pianist John Mikali performs...
Not even his lover, American psychologist Katherine Riley, suspects the truth. B...

It is May,1963. In one month, President John F Kennedy will visit West Berlin. In East Berlin, the Communists prepare a catastrophic welcome...
In the dungeon of an ancient castle, miles east of the border, lies Father Sean Conlin--hero of the Wes...

The days of the Third Reich are numbered … but on an isolated island outpost in the middle of the English Channel, the German army has vowed to fight to the death. Under a brilliant, ruthless S.S. commander, the Nazi invades have turned the once-pe...

During World War II, a group of German expatriates trapped in Brazil must sail across five thousand miles of tempestuous water to reach their homeland-and face the deadly barricade of American and British military power....

April 1945: A bitter, bloody war draws to an end--yet for some the battle has just begun. The Berlin skies are lit with fire as Russian artillery reduces the city to rubble. In the Fiihrerbunker, the Nazi high command prepares to meet its fate: surre...

Threatened on all sides, a desperate Adolph Hitler lashes out with an impossible order: kidnap Winston Churchill - or kill him. A disgraced war hero receives the suicidal mission - to take his commandos into the heart of England. In the quiet seaside...

Martin Fallon was on the run. From the police who wanted him for murder. And from the terrorist organization that wanted him for refusing to murder anymore.
He had come to his last hope of escape. A Greek called Kristou. Kristou said, "There is a ...

"What in hell are you after, Brigadier?"
"I want you to come to work forme, Simon. In exchange, I'll get you out of prison. The slate wiped clean."
"And what would I have to do in return?"
"Oh, that's simple. I'd like you to take on the I.R....

An adventurer, a multimillionaire, and a beautiful aristocrat-blood, love, and money bound them to a...Night Judgement at Sinos
Jack Savage worked the trade with the highest mortality rate on earth. But at one hundred fathoms down, a diver has mor...

Following the success of the repackaged and retitled Higgins classic The Bormann Testament, we continue the action with Special Agent Paul Chavasse. Now his investigation into the murder of a gangland boss uncovers a deadly conspiracy that reaches th...

Stacey Wyatt knows the power of the Mafia. He has seen what its brutal vengeance and sinister corruption can do. But when he is broken out of prison and brought to Sicily, his only choice is to enter the Mafia's shadowy world of treachery and death.
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CAPE DESOLATION, GREENLAND--The wreckage of a private airplane is discovered high up in the icy desert. The pilot listed in the log and the body found near the plane are not the same. Charter pilot Joe Martin is hired by the pilot's widow and insuran...

The Organization was all-powerful, and the Baron's word was law. A sinister villain's network, raking profits from all fields of crime. But one man is ready to storm them, and bring 'Babylon' crashing down... For Harry Youngblood, it means finding a ...

Paul Chavasse had everything a good agent needed. Flair, ingenuity, a superb intelligence, common sense plus a willingness to kill. Now he was part of the walking wounded. So badly hurt on his last mission they figured he was through. But Chavasse wa...

British expatriate Paul Chavasse is about as tough as they come. For years, he has made a dangerous living running men and intelligence across the Adriatic Sea from Italy to the communist country of Albania. But his ideals are about to be tested--mor...

MAN WITH A MISSION
His name is Harry Manning and he runs a charter fishing boat in the Bahamas. He is something of a rogue with a muddy past, and women adore him. He thinks a lot about Cuba and how he barely escaped with his life. So he drinks too m...

1962. The Cold War heats up as the space race begins. And one scientist, living under house arrest in Chinese-controlled Tibet, holds the key to victory.
Paul Chavasse is inserted into Tibet on a desperate mission that may be the West's only hope ...

Special Agent Paul Chavasse is about to start a much-deserved holiday when he is abruptly pulled back to active duty. He knows that if he's being called into action, a job has gone bad--and it's about to get a lot worse.
As Hitler's private secret...

A former POW hunts for the truth behind a web of murder, betrayal, and treason. In the midst of the Korean War, Martin Shane and five others were captured as POWs and tormented by the cruel Colonel Li. One of them revealed military secrets in return ...

Former IRA operative Martin Fallon has survived prison, the bottle, and a police pursuit that sent him running the length and breadth of Ireland. As Fallon turns forty years old, the IRA needs his help again, this time to break Patrick Rogan, the lea...

Before the sun can set on Jack Drummond s career as a pilot in the British Navy, he must complete one final flight a weapons drop over Tibet to aid guerilla fighters in their border dispute with the Red Chinese. But before he can complete the job, hi...

Mark Hagen s streak of bad luck left him broke, despondent, and barely able to eke out a living smuggling guns in Macao. But things begin to look up when Hagen gets a lead on a bounty of gold, lying untouched at the bottom of a lagoon in the marshes ...

Britain’s most wanted political offender. A seductively beautiful woman, and the dream of a perfect escape-Many lives had been sacrificed for the Irish cause, but legendary freedom fighter Colum O-Mare, ageing and critically ill, was ready to gambl...